Performing the Gospel

This ground-breaking volume gathers the best new work in Gospels criticism centered on how the Gospels actually came to be: through oral tradition, story performance, and cultural memory.

Contributors include:

John Miles Foley

Martin Jaffee

Jonathan A.Draper

Ellen Aitken

Holly Hearon

Vernon K. Robbins

Whitney Shiner

Jan Assmann

Jens Schroeter

Richard A. Horsley

Jonathan A. Draper is Professor of New Testament at the School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

John Miles Foley holds the Wm. H. Byler Chair in the Humanities and directs the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri.

Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Message and the Kingdom (2002 with Neil Asher Siberman), Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (1992), and Jesus and the Empire (2002).